[TN-Bird] Re: Metrocenter Waterfowl
- From: Lyda Phillips <lydap@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 14:12:38 -0600
Spent a nice lunch hour with a little car birding around north Nashville.
Walter S. Camp Blvd. marshy spot by TSU
6 or so Northern Shovelers
10 or so Mallards
20 or so Coots
2 pair green-winged teal
4 pair gadwall
1 mockingbird
1 red-tailed hawk
Metro Center - Cumberland river overlook by golf course:
2 great blue herons across the river
1 white-throated sparrow
dozen or so crows
starlings
3 mockingbirds
Lake behind Watkins Institute
Ring-billed gulls 25 (4 first-years)
Bonaparte's Gulls - 2
Hooded Mergansers - 12 or so
Ruddy Ducks 6
Pied-bill grebes 6 or so
Canada goose 15 or so
Highlight
was returning to work at corner of Vanguard and Great Circle rd. to see
young Coopers Hawk in tall pine tree chasing a squirrel around and
around the trunk. Eventually he gave it up and sulked on a branch, letting me
get within feet of him. Of course the memory in my cell phone camera was
full .
Lyda Phillips
Davidson County
From: neil.kelleyca@xxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 00:17:40 -0600
Subject: [TN-Bird] Metrocenter Waterfowl
To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Metrocenter, Nashville, Davidson Co., TN11 December 2013, 9:30 AM
I visited Amulet lake Wednesday morning and had a few interesting birds (for me
at least) including large numbers of Hooded Mergansers, several Bonaparte's
Gulls, a Horned Grebe and a friendly feral Muscovy Duck. I'm still getting to
know this urban birding spot but it is turning out to be more diverse and
interesting than I expected. No luck refinding the Black-crowned Night-Heron
from last week, however.
Complete list follows (numbers are likely low, there were distant birds I could
not identify with confidence)
Canada Goose
4
Muscovy Duck (Domestic type)
1
Gadwall
12
Mallard
2
Ring-necked Duck
1
Lesser Scaup
2
Hooded Merganser
30
Ruddy Duck
8
Pied-billed Grebe
4
Horned Grebe
1
Double-crested Cormorant
6
Great Blue Heron
1
Red-tailed Hawk
2
American Coot
20
Bonaparte's Gull
6
Ring-billed Gull
12
Belted Kingfisher
1
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (in parking lot)
1
Yellow-rumped Warbler (in parking lot)
3
Some photos here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/anauxite/sets/72157638598976264/
Neil Kelley
Davidson County
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